Richard Fish wrote:

> Hmm, I thought log rotation was controlled by logrotate, in which case
> the default is gzip, but you can change it in /etc/logrotate.conf. 
> Maybe things work differently with sysklogd though...I am using syslog-ng.
> 

sysklogd also (optionally) rotates logs, through the savelog utility.
Rotation itself is done by a cron job (syslog.cron). If you install
both logrotate and syslogd you get some interesting results :-)

raf
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